Heparin contraindications

Heparin sodium should not be used in patients:

• With severe thrombocytopenia;

• In whom suitable blood-coagulation tests — e.g., the whole-blood clotting time, partial thromboplastin time, etc. — cannot be performed at appropriate intervals (this contraindication refers to full-dose Heparin; there is usually no need to monitor coagulation parameters in patients receiving low-dose Heparin);

• With an uncontrollable active bleeding state (see WARNINGS), except when this is due to disseminated intravascular coagulation.